Ted Danson helped the injured Woody Harrelson after a motorcycle accident

Ted Danson used his talent as a film doctor to help his long-time friend Woody Harrelson after he was injured in a motorcycle accident.

On Monday’s episode of the podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” Harrelson, 62, revealed that he collided with a Tesla on the way to tape the show and that his “Cheers” co-star and podcast co-host helped him cope with the aftermath of the accident.

Harrelson, who appeared to have an ice pack on his right hand, told O’Brien and his co-host and longtime assistant Sona Movsesian, “I actually flew over my handlebars. Embarrassingly, I passed this Tesla on the left side that I felt was going a little slow, but I didn’t realize it was going slow because it was turning left.”

“Yes, I was wearing a helmet. It actually helped me because I hit my head,” he later added. “I always thought I would be OK; I just felt like it hurt a little bit. I felt the pain, but I never thought I was going to be killed or maimed.”

USA TODAY has reached out to Harrelson’s representative for comment on his condition.

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Ted Danson fears Woody Harrelson may have been “seriously injured” in the accident

O’Brien revealed that they had to postpone the podcast recording due to Harrelson’s incident: “We lost some time while people were figuring out, ‘are you still alive?’ Your soul had to go back into your body.”

“Her hand is wrapped up like someone in a cartoon,” O’Brien noted, and Danson admitted, “That’s because I wrapped it up. I thought it would look funnier that way.”

Harrelson said, “We’re in the bathroom and I say, ‘You played a doctor, right?’ And he says, ‘Yeah, I played a lawyer too, so we could sue the guy.’ I said, ‘Well, I think the defense needs to have a lawyer because it was my fault.'”

In the 1970s – several years before he was cast as Sam Malone in “Cheers” – Danson played Dr. Chuck Weldon on the NBC soap opera “The Doctors.”

Harrelson also praised the Emmy and Golden Globe winner’s bedside manner, saying, “His confidence, his demeanor, everything about the way he does it makes you feel like, ‘Yes, I’m in the best hands.'”

After Harrelson revealed that he hit his head but was apparently uninjured because he was wearing a helmet, Danson told Woody that it still made him “sad,” adding, “He could have been seriously injured.”

Harrelson admitted that he often rides motorcycles because he “always feels that the shortest distance between two points in LA can be covered by motorcycle,” but acknowledged that the accident should “certainly” have an impact on his future as a motorcyclist.

“In other words, maybe I should just slow down a bit in life,” he added.

Three decades after the end of “Cheers,” Danson and Harrelson host a new podcast called “Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson & Woody Harrelson (Sometimes),” which explores the lives and careers of celebrity guests including Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Jane Fonda and Martin Short.

“Sure, we’ll talk to interesting guests and sure, we’ll share a few laughs along the way, but the biggest win will be the rekindling of our romance, I mean friendship, after all this time,” Harrelson said in a statement about the podcast’s launch.

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